Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
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Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#2PhDs in the US are paid to teach and often receive grants to do research.
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#3Not free, but the people of Norway feel like education is important enough that they choose to pay for it through taxes rather than make the individual pay.
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#4I have never heard of a PhD student who isn't getting paid to do research. Even at the Master's level, most students were getting paid, with the exception of the coursework people. Are there people who are actually paying for their PhDs? If so that is definitely not the norm.
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#5Living expenses in Norway are astronomical if you're not locally employed.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#6Not free, but the people of Norway feel like education is important enough that they choose to pay for it through taxes rather than make the individual pay.
Doesn't "free" in a context like this mean "free at the point of delivery" - not "doesn't cost anything".
[NB "free at the point of delivery" is how the UK NHS (all 4 of them) have always described their services]
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#7I didn't know that people were paying to do a PhD anywhere on earth. In France I'm fairly sure it is even forbidden to do a PhD without getting paid (if you don't you have to justify that you have incomes by other means or something to be able to register as a PhD student).
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#8Living expenses in Norway are astronomical if you're not locally employed. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
You can live on PhD stipend fairly comfortably though.
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#9I didn't know that people were paying to do a PhD anywhere on earth. In France I'm fairly sure it is even forbidden to do a PhD without getting paid (if you don't you have to justify that you have incomes by other means or something to be able to register as a PhD student).
> I didn't know that people were paying to do a PhD anywhere on earth.
Some universities ask for tuition fee.
Re: Getting a PhD in Norway is nearly free--even if you're not a citizen
#10university is free in most european countries